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Is it possible to use 102 as a caddy + ether and Usb?
Hi and thank you for reading. I did search a little but could see not an answer to this. After experimenting with the 102, I'm finding it a lot more work than I need for my simple requirement. I w...
I don't know for home server, I'm more used to fully fledged version of windows server (Since I have free licenses with MSDNAA I usually go with datacenter edition ;) )
Actually I think you can make disks work with windows but it will require more manipulations than for reading it. (you would have to format disks, recreate share and users manually via SSH). We can strip the OS down to a bare minimum but doing so will also require more work and is way more complex than using the OS as it is.
Microsoft way of doing things is actually nearly the same as other OS. Microsoft way of creating software is more questionable though (I hate registry stuff, RAM Hungry stuff...). The vocabulary used is the same across OS, a user remains a user, a share = a share, a protocol = a protocol... Only the way they are handled changes, but since the interface takes care of it for you...
That said there is actually a way to manage the NAS from windows. Set the NAS as an iSCSI target, connect it on your computer, it should be recognised as a normal hard drive (you might even have to format it from the drive manager). I don't know if windows has iSCSI integrated though, I believe so since Hyper-V should have it to be somewhat usable in enterprise environnement.
Actually I think you can make disks work with windows but it will require more manipulations than for reading it. (you would have to format disks, recreate share and users manually via SSH). We can strip the OS down to a bare minimum but doing so will also require more work and is way more complex than using the OS as it is.
Microsoft way of doing things is actually nearly the same as other OS. Microsoft way of creating software is more questionable though (I hate registry stuff, RAM Hungry stuff...). The vocabulary used is the same across OS, a user remains a user, a share = a share, a protocol = a protocol... Only the way they are handled changes, but since the interface takes care of it for you...
That said there is actually a way to manage the NAS from windows. Set the NAS as an iSCSI target, connect it on your computer, it should be recognised as a normal hard drive (you might even have to format it from the drive manager). I don't know if windows has iSCSI integrated though, I believe so since Hyper-V should have it to be somewhat usable in enterprise environnement.
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